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Studying and collaborating with any software-intensive organization demands for excellence in empirical software engineering research. The ever-growing complexity and context-dependency of software products, however, demands for more pragmatic and solution-focused research. This is a great opportunity but it also conflicts with the traditional quest for “purity” in research and a very narrow focus of the work. In this short positioning, we elaborate on challenges which emerge from academia-industry collaborations and discuss touch upon pragmatic ways of approaching them along the co-production model which emerged from SERL Sweden.
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Gorschek, T., Mendez, D. (2021). Solving Problems or Enabling Problem-Solving? from Purity in Empirical Software Engineering to Effective Co-production (Invited Keynote). In: Winkler, D., Biffl, S., Mendez, D., Wimmer, M., Bergsmann, J. (eds) Software Quality: Future Perspectives on Software Engineering Quality. SWQD 2021. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 404. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65854-0_9
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